Naruto Chapter 384

[darkshadow]

Ok lets see. according to the databooks, and his known history, kakashi is currently the most gifted ninja and strongest jounin in konoha.
During the 3rd great ninja war, that we see in the gaiden, minato AND kakashi became pretty famous, minato for his crazy yellow flash thing technique, and kakashi for beating the shit out of jounins at his young age.
After jiraiya asked tsunade who would become hokage if she died ( or something), she stated 1st, we have kakashi.......and naruto, not gai, anko or the other strong jounins we know.

Kakashi stated himself that his stamina isn't that high, and from what i concluded from the zabuza fight, he doesn't feel like tiring himself needlesly, at first the fight seemed to be pretty even or even in favor of zabuza, but after kakashi got serious he turned it around so fast, he was back handing zabuza with his eyes closed.

Also jiraiya mananged to fight 3 peins before seeing he needed to go hermit (iirc), I don't think 1 pein would "wipe the floor" with kakashi, you are forgetting that sharingan is a very powerful tool, without it, sasuke wouldve never beaten kyuubi naruto. Also i think its fair to say since pein beat jiraiya, he would beat nearly anyone else.

He failed to kill deidara yes, but he was using his attack for the very first time, he even needed to activate it via a handseal, which is unusual for normal mangekyou, still he managed to zap off an arm at that altitude/movementspeed. He zapped away an entire explosion later on.

Deidara beating gaara, well deidara was just the perfect opponent for him(flight, mixing clay with sand), actually deidara is the perfect opponent for everyone if there is a wide open space, gaara managed to counter so well cause of his control over sand, which was all over the place, i bet that if sasori went in there he would've died a horrible death.

Also don't forget his ability to open gates.

For known genius lvl konoha ninja i think it would be ranked as:
1. sarutobi, youngest hokage ever "god of all ninja" "the professor"
2. minato, yellow flash
3. kakashi, pure absolute genius, mangekyou sharingan
4. Itachi, pure genius, mangekyou sharingan.


Been awhile since i did a long post. meh

Oh and that's why i dont think some barely semi-genius ninja (sasuke) couldve attained mangekyou in a similar fashion.